Why would you want to do this rather than create a bookmark?
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ChrisWOct 1 '12 at 15:45

I want this to sit on my desktop. I'm using windows 7 - so typically a url will open with IE, but I want to specify that it open with a diff browser, something you can't do with Windows7 built in url creator. This used to be done in WindowsXP and earlier also
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VISQLOct 1 '12 at 15:49

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Not such a strange nor bad question. I do this with a simple bat-file as I showed in my answer below. I use Firefox for everything except my banking that demands IE. So I have a bank.bat that launches IE and takes me to the correct site.
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NifleOct 1 '12 at 16:16

Thanks. That doesn't allow me to choose the browser though, such as with other user-created files. I don't want it to open with IE. However, that is the only option when creating a Windows shortcut in which a url is placed.
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VISQLOct 1 '12 at 15:54

And how will this open in the correct browser?
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NifleOct 1 '12 at 16:13

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@Nifle I have no idea. But he keeps insisting that this must be done with an HTML file. Your answer and my previous answer are both perfectly good ways to do this, but he seems opposed to anything not done in HTML.
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RyanOct 1 '12 at 16:14

It launches chrome.exe and loads amazon.com you. You need to replace http://www.amazon.com and YOUR-WINDOWS-USER-NAME at a minimum.
If you want to use another browser (or if you have chrome installed somewhere else) you have to change the path too.